BVB hosts ‘Day of Remembrance’: Stories of Dortmund’s Holocaust victims | OneFootball

January 27 is the annual Holocaust Memorial Day because on this date in 1945 the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated. Worldwide, events take place to remember the millions of innocent victims of this crime against humanity committed by the National Socialists. BVB is once again participating with its own event, to which it invites people on January 22 to its club museum, the Borusseum.

The lecture, which will be held that evening from 19:09 in the Borusseum, is under the motto of the “Day Against Forgetting,” as Holocaust Memorial Day is also called. Dr. Andreas Kahrs is a historian dedicated to researching the transit ghettos of that time in Poland, where those condemned to death were often crammed before their final journey to extermination.

Almost 2,000 Holocaust victims known by name were deported from Dortmund, many of them to these transit ghettos. The lecture in the rooms of Borussia Dortmund will focus on a specific phase of the deportations from Dortmund, namely at the end of April 1942. At that time, the football field and sports hall of Eintracht Dortmund became the collection point for Jewish citizens who were sent to their deaths.

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Details about those deported from Dortmund

Back then, a train transported 791 people from Dortmund Südbahnhof to Zamosc in Poland, where one of those transit ghettos was located, from which the only further destinations were Sobibor or Belzec, two of the extermination camps run by the German occupiers in Poland. None of the 791 men and women from Dortmund survived this deportation.

In total, 23,000 Jewish citizens from the German Reich were deported eastwards and murdered that spring. On January 22, Dr. Kahrs will report on the biographies of some of the murdered Dortmunders, illustrated with documents, photos, and letters, as well as, where possible, reports on the victims’ last traces in Poland.

With this event, BVB once again demonstrates its unequivocal stance against discrimination and exclusion. However, the lecture is already fully booked, so participation in the audience is no longer possible.

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